AJSS teams, voluntarily approach various employers, assess the need for trained people in various trades and develop the programs with the help of experts. All India Radio, Alumni, voluntary agencies, industries, District Employment Exchange, etc help in identifying candidates for the courses. The trainees are selected for training on the basis of their educational level, aptitude and family background.

It has been the practice of the JSS that whenever a meeting for boys and girls are organized by any agency accessible to JSS, at the end of the session, JSS coordinators call for parents and appraise them of the activities of JSS. The parents are invited to the Institute and shown the avenues available for their wards to get trained in various vocations with the job guarantee. Similarly, whenever programmes are undertaken for Self-Help Groups in various rural areas, on the last day of the course the children of the beneficiaries who are unemployed are called for a meeting and apprised the avenues open to them. The response has been very good.

Through survey of the training needs in Coimbatore, the Jan Shikshan Sansthan is able to conduct more than 126 kinds of training and assures employment soon after the training. The target groups are socio – economically backward and come under the categories of illiterates, neo literates, school drop outs, unemployed, under employed, slum dwellers, SCs (Socially deprived) / STs (Forest dwellers) , physically challenged, etc